JERUSALEM/DUBAI, August 17 (Reuters): The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for "some time," preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE normalisation
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BEIRUT, August 17 (Reuters): More than 15 years since Lebanon's Rafik al-Hariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut, the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tues
VIENNA, AUGUST 17 (IANS): The second round of nuclear disarmament talks between the US and Russia are scheduled to begin in Vienna on Monday. US Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingsl
SEOUL, August 17 (Reuters): South Korea warned on Monday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have
LONDON, August 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Aid workers suffered a record 277 major attacks around the world last year, an independent humanitarian research organisation said on Monday, with healthcare
Reuters A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S
MINSK, August 17 (Reuters): Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, said on Monday he would be willing to hand over power after a referendum, in an apparent bid to pacify mass protests and strikes tha
BANGKOK, August 17 (Reuters): The deafening cheer for Anon Nampa at Thailand's biggest demonstration in years underlined the bookish human rights lawyer's emergence at the forefront of a youth prot
BEIJING, August 17 (Reuters): China welcomed on Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed summit of world leaders to avoid "confrontation" over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all
Kabul, August 17 (IANS): At least 32 Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured during a clash which erupted after security forces struck the terror group's hideouts in Badghis province, a top offi
Mogadishu, August 17 (IANS): At least 16 people, including a police officer, were killed and dozens others injured after the Somalian security forces ended a five-hour siege by the al-Shabab terror group at a b
Washington, August 17 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 21.5 million, while the deaths were nearing 774,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, th
Brasilia, August 17 (IANS): Brazilian First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro has recovered from the novel coronavirus, after she tested positive for the disease on July 30. "The test came out negative, thank you
BEIRUT, August 16 (Reuters): Two decades of Maya Husseini's work to restore stained glass windows destroyed in the Lebanese civil war was lost in an instant in the seismic port explosion in Beirut.
DUBAI/JERUSALEM, August 16 (Reuters): The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publicly-acknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalis
DUBAI, August 16 (Reuters): The United Arab Emirates has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry describ
New York, August 16 (IANS): Government-issued physical distancing orders significantly slowed the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to an estimated reduction of more than 600,000 cases in the US within three weeks of
MINSK, August 16 (Reuters): Russia said on Sunday it had told Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko it was ready to offer military assistance if necessary as demonstrators gathered for one of the biggest
WASHINGTON, August 16 (Reuters): U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor - now living in Russia - who
KABUL, AUGUST 16 (IANS): Just ahead of the planned intra-Afghan peace negotiations which are likely to take place soon in Doha, the Taliban has said that it does not recognize the government in Kabul as a legit
